JR East unveiled Monday a luxury, all-suite sleeper train set to launch in May. Train Suite Shiki-Shima has 10 cars, including a diner, a lounge and a glass-walled dome car. With a total construction cost of ¥5 billion, the train is designed to provide ...

Hundreds of fans gathered Sunday at a railway station on the Rumoi Line in Hokkaido to bid farewell to the final train to run on one section of the line. The line has been in operation for 95 years. The last train, packed with ...

The number of foreigners visiting Mikawa-Anjo Station, the next stop after Nagoya Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line, is increasing, particularly visitors from Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. But why are so many tourists stopping at this station even though there is no famous sightseeing ...

At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India on Sunday, with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police said. Daljeet Chaudhary, a director-general of police, said ...

In all of Tokyo, the Toden Arakawa Line is the last remaining streetcar. The single-car train covers a 12-km route between Minowa in Arakawa Ward and Waseda in Shinjuku Ward, a leisurely ride that takes 50 minutes. Marking the 105th anniversary of its launch ...

Security has been stepped up on the London Underground network, police said Saturday, following the arrest of a 19-year-old man after a suspicious item was discovered on a Tube train. “The public will see more officers, including armed police, in and around transport hubs,” ...

A 40-year-old man with impaired vision died Sunday when a limited express train hit him after he fell onto the tracks at a station in Osaka Prefecture, police said. The man apparently fell onto the tracks while walking on the platform at Kawachi-Kokubu Station ...

Tokyo Metro Co. will increase the number of security guards on platforms and improve communication between staff after a blind man recently fell on the tracks and was killed, officials said Tuesday. But the officials said deploying additional staff is only a stopgap measure ...

The Cabinet on Monday adopted a bill that will allow the central government to make unsolicited loans for building Central Japan Railway Co.’s high-speed maglev line. The government hopes the bill will help get the nation’s first line for magnetically levitated trains running up ...

When planning a trip to Japan, tourists are most likely to pack destinations like Mount Fuji, Kyoto and Akihabara all into the space of a few days. But for those who have been there and done that, railways are offering a fresh alternative — ...

erlin The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a train in Germany that injured at least five people. The claim was posted on the group’s Aamaq news agency on Tuesday. It came hours after a 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker attacked ...